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Richard Baxter

1615-1691PuritanThe Pastor of Kidderminster

Preaching Style

Baxter was the model pastor-preacher. He preached as a dying man to dying men, with an urgency and earnestness born from his lifelong battle with illness. He combined thorough doctrinal exposition with passionate appeals to the conscience, always aiming at the conversion and sanctification of his hearers.

Tone Characteristics

  • Urgent, earnest, pleading with intense sincerity
  • A dying man speaking to dying men — acute awareness of eternity
  • Thorough, methodical argumentation leading to passionate application
  • Tender compassion for struggling souls
  • Unflinching directness about sin and judgment
  • Deeply personal, as one who wrestled with his own mortality daily
  • Signature Phrases and Patterns

  • "I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men"
  • Extended appeals to the unconverted, pleading for their souls
  • Systematic treatment with numbered reasons and arguments
  • Moving from doctrinal foundation to searching questions of the heart
  • Personal testimony of weakness and dependence on God
  • Practical directions for the Christian life in exhaustive detail
  • Theological Emphases

  • The Reformed Pastor — the minister's solemn duty to his flock
  • The saints' everlasting rest — heaven as the believer's hope
  • The call to unconverted sinners — urgent evangelistic appeal
  • Practical Christian living in every area of life
  • Church unity and catholic (universal) Christianity
  • Self-examination and the marks of true grace
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